Topic: UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread - page 975. (Read 129790 times)

the Italian side is defended by atalanta!


48 goals conceded, it's not a bad defense, in my humble opinion

in the other side, i hope win because i love so much atalanta and his story

If we consider the quality players, then surely PSG will be superior. But sometimes quality players doesn't guarantee the winning on the match. If Atlanta can play as a team with their best, they can have a chance to win. There is no impossible thing in a football match as long as the team wants to do hard work against a bigger team.

I agree with you, I like Atalanta and what they have done so far, but I don't think they will have enough composure and concentration to beat PSG. I this match their defense, weakest part of the team, will be under a lot more pressure then what they are used too. Atalanta will play offensive, only thing they know how to do, but it will cost them in this match.

I think the disadvantage PSG has in that game is the lack of conditioning which we have seen as not a big problem for them. In Italy they played rest of the league while in France they cancelled the season, which is interesting when you think about the fact that France didn't had it as worse as Italy on the peak, but that was the case anyway. So, atalanta will be in peak form and will play with 100% but PSG is such a great team that even at 50% they are better team.

However, when they move further and if they beat atalanta and face another team they will have even harder and harder task to beat their opponents but also get better conditioning as well. The real risky game is Bayern vs Barcelona, I still don't know who to bet on that game, it looks like either could win the game.

Atalanta needs a big amount of luck and not just luck in this event.Psg has the better players and if we judge by the monetary value of each player it is crystal clear that Psg is the one who will pass the turn.Atalanta should be happy with their performance and the fact that they have arrived such far in the Champions League.

They are finished on 3, but from goal conceded, they are still need to be careful.

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Yeah, I read about Angel Correa and Sime Vrsaljko rumoured as Positive, but from the latest news on dailymail.co.uk, both of this players test results as negative. If this true, so no one players have corona in atletico now. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8611357/Atletico-Madrid-fear-two-players-tested-positive-coronavirus-infected-stars.html

I think it's like a final, and it should be the closing game in the champions league. My prediction is that Atlanta will have a hard time vs PSG, they need luck and hard work from all teams. No away and home games make the opportunities for both teams even more attractive, seeing the quality of PSG players is superior than atlanta. Apart from that, I am interested in the Atletico vs Leipzig match, how it is progressing, reportedly there are two Atletico players who have tested positive for Covid-19.

This is a game that is difficult to predict because PSG vs Atalanta have encountered for the first time in the UCL quarter-finals...
both teams are very good especially Atalanta who are known to have a solid defense, There are rumors that Mbappe has recovered from injury and will be playing, but I'm not sure that will make Atalanta any trouble. I personally prefer Atalanta.

So I accurately predicted the quarter-finalists. Some amazing matches were played in Round of 16. Among quarter-finalists, we have:
2 Spanish sides
2 German sides
2 French sides
1 Italian side
and One Team from so-called the best league in the world

This shows how overrated Premier League is. For me, the quality of football is higher in La Liga while the level of competition is higher in Serie A when compared to PL.

Now talking about Quarters,

First Game: I was sure about Atalanta's win till few days ago but now story looks different. The main reason of Atalanta's overwhelming performance was the Deadly Trio of Gomez, Zapata and Ilicic. But due to some undisclosed personal reasons, Ilicic left the Atalanta squad. Him leaving Atalanta's squad is more significant than Mbappe's unavailability for PSG in my opinion. Now I think PSG can win this one. My Prediction: 3-1 in favor of PSG.

Second Game: Atletico will be without their important player Correa due to Coronavirus. He has played all CL games for AM so far this season. However, Leipzig failed to impress post-lockdown, not to forget they are without Timo Werner. In nutshell, easy win for Atletico Madrid.

Third Game: Oh my god! What a game it would be. This is seriously a final material. They are meeting too soon in competition, that's unfair. FC Bayern are clear favorites. But it's Barcelona we are talking about, it's Lionel Messi we are talking about. This one could do some serious damage to bookies as I can see odds are as high are 3.8 on Barcelona. Although they played awful post-lockdown in league but last La Liga game plus pre-quarterfinal were good performances. Other than Messi, Semedo, Lenglet, Rakitic and Frenkie De Jong gave good performances too. Especially Semedo, who made some excellent sprints. It will be 1v1 clash between him and Davies, let see who wins the war of speed. I am routing for Barcelona (more of an emotional decision than the factual) but this can happen very much.

Fourth Game: It's easy, Manchester City. Lyon were lucky to get away from Juventus. Goal advantage at home, lucky away penalty goal and sheer will in defense made them go-past Juve. But Man City are not Juventus. They are City, they are KDB, Sterling, Jesus and who not. Even Man City bench looks more cheerful than Lyon's starting XI. I expect easy win for Man City, they can't lose focus this time.

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It has been a lucrative betting session for me. Won 13 bets, lost only 3. I really hope this winning streak continues for me in Quarters too.

in my opinion, on the other hand, the atalanta wins and not PSG
atalanta have strong defense and good attack
is third on italian championship (and it is the hardest one of world)

of course i hope win, but soccer's ball going forward

At the back of my mind I always have this nagging feeling something's not quite right when this type of incident happens BUT I've played football for a long time and I've been guilty of the most incredible errors of judgments I never care to remember -- which of course explains why some of us are lowlife while others are actual professionals;)

Lyon wants to be the Liverpool of 2005 I guess =p

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Test results just came back. Besides Angel Correa and Sime Vrsaljko everyone else tested negative today. So it looks like the match vs Leipzig can happen as planned on Thursday.

I wonder if they will test the whole team again this week. Maybe someone got infected where the incubation period wasn't over so the test was still negative today (if that is even possible, I am not an expert?). That's why we usually have the 2-weeks quarantine for everyone who had contact to a positive-tested person. But it seems in this case different rules apply?

I don't think not easy to be 5+ goals in this match. 4 goals maybe happens but no for more. The possible goals in this match is max 4 goals with 2-2 or 3-1/1-3 scores.

From experience and quality, yes PSG can win the game, but Atalanta also have good defense, in Italy they are just lose in 6 games.

PSG's chances are very big in Atalanta's quarter-finals maybe it will be quite difficult for a bit but I think this can be overcome by PSG, of course Mbappe is very important on the right front line because it will greatly affect fast attacks from Mbappe and Neymar.

I am sure that even if it is playing away for PSG they will win.

City was really lucky with Lyon going through. Juventus was a team that really does not suit them based on their playstyle and in 1 game they could have caused them a lot of problems.

Lyon showed they can defend well but they are inferior to City in every position on the pitch and it would be a miracle if they did not advance to the semifinals.

Atalanta-PSG looks like a 5+ goals game, I'm really looking forward to that one.

Damn I fell down even further and it hurts me because I used to be in a winning spot,,, just goes to show I think you have to try and predict like the masses to be safely in a winning zone (but to get #1 you have to be very clever!).

I guess no more time for upsets now except maybe for PSG what do you think? But Atalanta is such small odds for such a big opponent is the Mbappe factor so important?

Sometimes Lionel Messi doesn't stir when the opponent already knows his weakness and that has happened several times so Messi will not bring significant impact on Barcelona's influence, Bayern have a strong mentality in defense and also my attackers prefer Lewandowski who is always sharp in front of goal and only misses a bit so when there is the right shot it might be a goal for Bayern Munich.
Let's bet who is better in my opinion Bayern Munich will dominate and continue to attack.

Barcelona will need other ways to reach the ball to Suarez maybe in order to score goals.
Apparently, the defensive line is going to play Messi stronger in order not to let him dribble or pass for goal.
Maybe those actions are needed to happen from Griezmann in this game in order to surprise the German team while they will be focused on Messi 100%.
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Messi is good at games with less experienced teams. When they meet well-coordinated and experienced teams, Messi cannot show anything, however, like the whole team.

I don't think that's going to happen.
I think that UEFA already has a plan for such situations and that these 2 players will probably be quarantined and the other players will go into self-isolation and will have additional tests.
If the other players are negative in the test, I'm sure that this match will be played.

EDIT: I just came across this news in Marca:
https://www.marca.com/en/football/spanish-football/2020/08/09/5f306c5de2704e1e778b45cd.html

So, it's confirmed at leat one player is infected.
Everyone will be tested again on Monday.

Sure, Messi the key player for barcelona but when Bayern can mark him, barcelona will be on trouble. Makes 1 player to working in high mobility is not good. When the key player marked with limit zone to move, Barca will be easy to stopped.

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Barcelona will need other ways to reach the ball to Suarez maybe in order to score goals.
Apparently, the defensive line is going to play Messi stronger in order not to let him dribble or pass for goal.
Maybe those actions are needed to happen from Griezmann in this game in order to surprise the German team while they will be focused on Messi 100%.